Only for the record, this story (in many localizations/with small changes) derives from Heinrich Böll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_A

Only for the record, this story (in many localizations/with small changes) derives from Heinrich Böll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arbeitsmoral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arbei... and it is usually classified as satire/humour. Maybe you (as well as some people that are re-posting/talking about it) are giving to it a relevance/importance it didn't originally have.